Surgeons Seeing the Light
April 29, 2013 | Terry Sharrer
Knowing how much pressure to exert is key to precision surgery, and to indicate the moment of optimal torsion engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Sutttgart have developed a surgical tool handle with an optical sensor that signals an LED bulb when the best cutting pressure is achieved. A next generation device will have a wireless antenna to transmit data that will document precision procedures. MORE
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